Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [adv] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 2 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 3 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 5 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 6 | I 've been paying ever since to keep him from finding out . |
| 7 | As a power in the land , America 's unions have been fading fast since the 1970s . |
| 8 | Some are still being bought and sold and , according to Charly Herscovici , prices have been rising slowly since 1967 , the year Magritte died . |
| 9 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 10 | Reporters have been ringing there since eight this morning . |
| 11 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 12 | The TV presenters , who have been living apart since May , sadly told of their decision to separate . |
| 13 | It was an honest mistake and one that all of the current Leeds back four have been repeating frequently since then — however if I ever see Bredan ‘ F***k**g ’ Gormless I 'll kick his head in ( NOT ! ) . |
| 14 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 15 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 16 | Samsung and Array — the buyout of Honeywell Inc 's Honeywell Signal Processing Technologies , have been working together since January 1991 on a family of video compression chips for the multimedia computing market , on a cost-sharing basis . |
| 17 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 18 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 19 | Talks have been going on since last night and the former Celtic and Manchester United star is set to travel north to sort out the details of his contract . |
| 20 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 21 | But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise . |
| 22 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |
| 23 | Party workers have been rallying around since last Thursday night 's arson attack which caused tens of thousands worth of damage . |